Wisdom Quotes — page 469

his system was declared contradictory to certain passages in the Koran, and he was called upon publicly to recant

[Ideas] are like shadows — substantial enough until we try to grasp them.

the exteriors are not the representation of the interiors

For to disagree with three-fourths of the British public on all points is one of the first elements of sanity, one of the deepest consolations in all moments of spiritual doubt.

The appearance... of limestone beds in the early part of the stratified series, may be presumed to be connected with the fact of the commencement of organic life upon our planet

collecting and collating the more or less mythical reports and traditions with which they are too ready to supply him. In such a manner most of the earlier accounts of the habits of the man-like Apes originated

You're not a man, you're a machine.

Declamation roared, while Passion slept.

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

So weak thou art, that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

His jacket was red and his breeches were blue, And there was a hole where the tail came through.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

Fight thou with shafts of silver and o'ercome, When no force else can get the masterdom.

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

How you produce volume after volume the way you do is more than I can conceive. ...But you haven't to forge every sentence in the teeth of irreducible and stubborn facts as I do. It is like walking through the densest brush wood.

A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Under the shady roof Of branching elm star-proof.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.

She starts research in new paths, enriches our knowledge with new discoveries, creates new sciences.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.